A crisis communications expert's perspective on current events

Month: November 2016

Right up until about 11 PM last night I never imagined that a self-confessed serial abuser of women could become the president of my country. For all of his many other shortcomings as a potential leader, I thought Trump’s overt contempt for women would be his undoing. I believed that regardless of what men did, … More After the Grenade Goes Off

Updating from yesterday. Even the Clinton Campaign is trying to present the tightening of polling as a reason to contribute to her campaign. She’s actually advertising that her opponent is WINNING based on a single polling data point despite the fact that an average of polling shows her well ahead, especially if you dismiss the … More Even Hillary is trying to take advantage of “Bad” Polling

Regardless of political leanings the headlines this week are full of stories about how Clinton’s lead in the polls has “vanished,” to quote Right Wing mouthpiece Breitbart.com or this Politico story spinning a story about Trump falling “back in love with the polls” after the race tightens back up. We even see Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight … More Let’s talk about Election Polls